Certain Employment Authorization Document –EAD- holders may be eligible for an automatic 180 day extension based on their filed EAD Extension. This automatic extension time period would start after their current EAD expires.
To receive this 180 automatic extension, the following criteria would need to be met:
- The renewal case should have been timely filed
- The Renewal EAD is filed with the same category as the previous EAD.
- The EAD is being applied under one of the eligible categories (codes).
The Qualifying EAD codes as per USCIS are:
| a)(3) | Refugee |
| (a)(5) | Asylee |
| (a)(7) | N-8 or N-9 |
| (a)(8) | Citizen of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, or Palau |
| (a)(10) | Withholding of Deportation or Removal Granted |
| (a)(12) | Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Granted |
| (c)(8) | Asylum Application Pending |
| (c)(9) | Pending Adjustment of Status under Section 245 of the Act |
| (c)(10) | Suspension of Deportation Applicants (filed before April 1, 1997) Cancellation of Removal Applicants Special Rule Cancellation of Removal Applicants Under NACARA |
| (c)(16) | Creation of Record (Adjustment Based on Continuous Residence Since January 1, 1972) |
| (c)(19) | Pending initial application for TPS where USCIS determines applicant is prima facie eligible for TPS and can receive an EAD as a “temporary treatment benefit”. |
| (c)(20) | Section 210 Legalization (pending I-700) |
| (c)(22) | Section 245A Legalization (pending I-687) |
| (c)(24) | LIFE Legalization |
| (c)(31) | VAWA Self-Petitioners |
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